May 16, 2012

Wednesday Whim - Pin Art

I never really thought much about peg boards. They are utilitarian at best but otherwise, they are just as they sound...boards with pegs. I now see them differently thanks to Swedish photographer, Philip Karlberg. He has created the likeliness of several famous folks in American pop culture for Plaza Magazine. According to him...

"A couple of months ago I came up with an idea I have had in mind for years," he says. "I just did not know what I could use it for. But then I did a test with sunglasses, and it really turned out great. So I sent an image with the test to Plaza Magazine, and a week later I started shooting. It was a real challenge to 'sculpt' the faces of some classic wearers of sunglasses. It took me 6 days to shoot the 6 faces, and around 1200 sticks were used."

Quite imaginative isn't it? What do you think? Do you think he nailed it?